The IG report also discloses that FBI agents knew Steele worked for Glenn Simpson, whose opposition research firm Fusion GPS was paying Steele to dig up dirt on Trump for the Clinton campaign, and that Steele informed the FBI that the "Candidate" - Clinton herself - knew about Steele's work.
Steele did not keep to himself the classified material he had learned from the FBI. Shortly after the Rome meeting, Steele briefed Simpson on what the FBI had disclosed to him.
FBI agents who shared classified secrets with Steele knew he worked for Glenn Simpson, above, whose opposition research firm was paying Steele to dig up dirt on Donald Trump for the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Steele took notes of the July 5 meeting he had with the "Handling agent." According to the Horowitz report, those notes state that Steele told Gaeta "Democratic Party associates" were funding his Fusion GPS work, that the "Ultimate client" was the Clinton campaign, and that "The candidate," as the IG report puts it, "Was aware of Steele's reporting."
Steele said the FBI didn't want him to share his election intelligence with other U.S. government agencies or with any of his private clients except for Fusion GPS. Gaeta said it was a reasonable request given that Steele "Was now being offered compensation to go forward from the United States government" - compensation such as the $15,000 he had been told he would be paid for attending the meeting in Rome.
In footnote 513, the IG report states investigators "Examined whether the FBI disclosed classified information to Steele." The Inspector General "Determined that Case Agent 2 did so when he discussed information with Steele that the FBI received from the FFG, and that he did not have prior authorization to make the disclosure."
The IG report concludes that, from Steele's initial July 2016 meeting with his handling agent, "It was clear that Steele was operating as a businessperson working on behalf of a client of his firm, rather than as a CHS for the FBI." Days before the presidential election, the bureau made it official that Steele was not a CHS. He was "Closed" as a source on Nov. 1, 2016, after the FBI learned he had been sharing his own research with the press.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/02/13/buried_in_ig_report_fbi_gave_steele_highly_protected_secrets_122394.html
Steele did not keep to himself the classified material he had learned from the FBI. Shortly after the Rome meeting, Steele briefed Simpson on what the FBI had disclosed to him.
FBI agents who shared classified secrets with Steele knew he worked for Glenn Simpson, above, whose opposition research firm was paying Steele to dig up dirt on Donald Trump for the Hillary Clinton campaign.
Steele took notes of the July 5 meeting he had with the "Handling agent." According to the Horowitz report, those notes state that Steele told Gaeta "Democratic Party associates" were funding his Fusion GPS work, that the "Ultimate client" was the Clinton campaign, and that "The candidate," as the IG report puts it, "Was aware of Steele's reporting."
Steele said the FBI didn't want him to share his election intelligence with other U.S. government agencies or with any of his private clients except for Fusion GPS. Gaeta said it was a reasonable request given that Steele "Was now being offered compensation to go forward from the United States government" - compensation such as the $15,000 he had been told he would be paid for attending the meeting in Rome.
In footnote 513, the IG report states investigators "Examined whether the FBI disclosed classified information to Steele." The Inspector General "Determined that Case Agent 2 did so when he discussed information with Steele that the FBI received from the FFG, and that he did not have prior authorization to make the disclosure."
The IG report concludes that, from Steele's initial July 2016 meeting with his handling agent, "It was clear that Steele was operating as a businessperson working on behalf of a client of his firm, rather than as a CHS for the FBI." Days before the presidential election, the bureau made it official that Steele was not a CHS. He was "Closed" as a source on Nov. 1, 2016, after the FBI learned he had been sharing his own research with the press.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/02/13/buried_in_ig_report_fbi_gave_steele_highly_protected_secrets_122394.html
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